The Lincoln Project convinced Democratic donors to part with $39,384,397 in Q3. It burned a staggering $13 million on operating expenditures, made $23.9M of IEs (mostly routed into its founders firms), and ended with $13.2M on hand.
The Lincoln Project raised $4.8 million between November 24th and December 16th hyping the Georgia Senate runoff elections.
Since then, it has spent $1.1 million on independent expenditures in those races and paid Steve Schmidt $1.5 million.
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🚨L.A. County updates in
#CA25
, with 2,241 votes breaking 55.96%/44.04% in FAVOR of incumbent Republican
@MikeGarcia2020
, extending his lead over Democrat Christy Smith by 267 votes to a new lead of 371
🚨The Republican National Committee's year-end filing reveals it had its worst fundraising year since 2013 in absolute dollars and its worst since 1993 in inflation-adjusted figures.
It raised $87.2M, spent $93.5M, and had just $8M on hand and $1.8m in debt.
SCOOP: Gavin Newsom will appoint EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Dem women who support abortion rights, per a person familiar.
Republican National Committee cash on hand at end of November:
2016 $21,354,030
2017 $39,838,889
2018 $27,008,324
2019 $63,233,392
2020 $58,777,814
2021 $65,468,902
2022 $17,275,601
2023 $9,956,381
Incredibly, despite Trump's cash crunch, his Save America leadership PAC shelled out another $108,000 in the first six months of the year for Melania Trump's stylist, Herve Pierre Braillard, while insisting to the FEC that it's for 'strategy consulting'.
🚨Update from San Bernardino County adds 2,878 votes in
#CA39
that break 67.2%/32.8% for Republican
@YoungKimCA
, widening her lead over incumbent Democrat
@RepGilCisneros
from 3,095 votes to 4,085 votes.
CNBC reporter and contributor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has apparently filed to challenge
@AOC
in
#NY14
's Democratic primary. The still-under-construction website here:
The Lincoln Project's Q3 report is in...another $3.14 million grifted from their target audience of
#resist
donors with incredibly poor judgment, $70.8K in political IEs, and...let's see...ah.
$3 million in operating expenditures.
INBOX: The latest attempt to recall California Governor
@GavinNewsom
has hit the 10% threshold required to get county registrars to begin verifying signatures. That would indicate at least 149,571 signatures have been submitted, so far.
Orange County update of 12,087 additional votes in
#CA47
break 53.6%/46.4% for incumbent Democrat Katie Porter, netting her 881 votes to claw back some of the ground she lost yesterday--she now leads by 3,772 votes.
Catering to
#Resist
donors has been a lucrative reversal of fortune for the Lincoln Project's founders. Reed Galen's Summit Strategic was paid $18.8M in Q3, Ron Steslow's TUSK Digital got $8.7M, Kurt Bardella's Endeavor Strategy got $153K
🚨Major reversal in
#CA10
, as 62,589 votes from Stanislaus County give Democrat
@joshua_harder
a sizable 3,362 vote lead over incumbent Republican
@JeffDenham
. The latest batch went 53.6% for Harder, 46.4% for Denham.
Nice work if you can get it. Lincoln Project founder Reed Galen's Summit Strategic logged $129,668 in expenditures for lodging reimbursement in August.
Looking through the top transactions, the amount spent on 'Research Services' suggests they're overpaying for someone to trawl through twitter to snatch up other people's content.
Lincoln Project threatens to intervene in the
#VAGov
race, divert Democratic donor money away from Terry McAuliffe, and use the proceeds to pay for ineffective ads, crisis comms PR, legal fees, generational wealth, and nepotism hires.
lol...I guess it's a more eye-catching headline than 'Unauthorized DeSantis ScamPAC that paid its founder 75% of the $1,621 it raised folds, will now support Trump with the $57 dollars it has left'
Melania Trump's stylist has given $371,000 worth of strategy consulting advice to Trump's Save America leadership PAC since April 2022 thanks to the generosity of retirees donating to Trump's fundraising operation.
BREAKING: Republican David Valadao wins election to U.S. House in California's 21st Congressional District, beating incumbent Rep. TJ Cox.
#APracecall
at 10:32 a.m. PST.
#Election2020
#CAelection
Update from Fresno County goes 56.2%/45.8% for Republican
@dgvaladao
in
#CA21
, widening his lead over Democrat
@TJCoxCongress
by 633 votes from 4,030 to 4,663.
🚨Yet another post-election update from Riverside County that comes in strong for
#CA41
Republican Ken Calvert, who wins today's batch of 15,039 votes 54.7%/45.3%, pulling away with another 1,423 votes and into a lead of 5,489 votes and 3.1%.
Walt Nauta, Trump's body man and co-defendant in the Mar-A-Lago classified documents case, collected bi-monthly paychecks from 2 Trump committees totaling $155,544 in 2023, $85,008 from the Trump 2024 cmte and $70,536 from the Save America leadership PAC.
With the latest $117,000 disclosure today, Rescue California, a Gavin Newsom recall committee that launched in November to add professional fundraising firepower to the effort, has brought in at least $930,800 in contributions since December 11th.
The Lincoln Project wraps up 2022 having raised $12.6M, spending ~$1M on political independent expenditures, w/the remaining $11.8M going to assorted other operating expenditures (chiefly legal fees/payouts and
#resist
-funded generational wealth transfers to the usual suspects).
For those keeping track, that's $40.2 million spent on legal fees out of the $53.8 million Trump's committees raised in the first half of the year, or roughly three out of every four dollars raised under a variety of false pretenses.
Among the Lincoln Project's 2022 top vendors:
$1.7M Lever Communications (Joe Trippi)
$792K Summit Strategic (Reed Galen)
$595K Manhattan Creative (Joey Wartnerchaney)
$501K Message Mountain (Stu Stevens)
$450K Intrepid Media (Rick Wilson)
$445K Third Act Media (Ben Howe)
The Lincoln Project wraps up 2022 having raised $12.6M, spending ~$1M on political independent expenditures, w/the remaining $11.8M going to assorted other operating expenditures (chiefly legal fees/payouts and
#resist
-funded generational wealth transfers to the usual suspects).
🚨Update from Madera County in
#CA13
comes in big for Republican John Duarte by a 61.6%/38.4% margin, netting him 1,563 votes to vault him into a 963-vote lead over Democrat Adam Gray.
Still unclear if Melania Trump's stylist, who received over $150,000 last year from Trump's leadership PAC for what the FEC was told was 'strategy consulting', was affected by the Trump cash crunch in the first half of the year.
Trump world attempting to get out ahead of the story that Trump's Save America leadership PAC burned $40.2 million on his legal fees in the first six months of the year.
NEW: Trump’s PAC spent over $40M in first half of 2023 on legal costs for Trump & others involved in investigations, as prosecutors probe arrangements. It’s by far Trump World’s biggest spending right now. W/
@DevlinBarrett
@hsu_spencer
:
Beyond parody. The San Francisco Assemblyman freaking out about the discarded airsoft BB gun packaging is also the author of bullet-tracing legislation that has been criticized for not being technically feasible.
Orange County has updated its totals. Today's batch of 3,663
#CA48
votes break 62.3%/37.7% for Republican
@MichelleSteelCA
, bringing her margin over incumbent Democrat
@RepHarleyRouda
up 901 votes from 1,950 to 2,851 votes.
Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a partnership with Publix grocery stores to distribute the vaccine in its pharmacies, Publix donated $100,000 to his PAC.
The turnaround for Galen's firm is particularly pronounced, coming off a 2018 cycle where its only receipts from a federal client amounted to $12,000 from an IE backing a GOP primary challenger to Dana Rohrabacher.
Whoa. Game changer in the Florida US Senate race as Lincoln Project swoops in with a shock and awe $34,125 buy in the home stretch opposing Marco Rubio, with 40% of the spend going into ad production and $20.5K for actual airtime.
Orange County update in
#CA48
adds 13,584 votes that break 52.9%/47.1% for Republican
@MichelleSteelCA
, widening her lead over incumbent Democrat
@HarleyRouda
by 782 votes from 6,191 to 6,973
#CA13
UPDATE: The district's last major untapped pool of uncounted votes in Stanislaus County posts, adding 5,026 votes that break 51.4%/48.7% for Democrat Adam Gray, which nets him just 136 votes, leaving Republican John Duarte with an 827-vote lead.
Hey
@GovRonDeSantis
, clearly you're struggling, distracted, and busy playing politics with people’s lives. Since you have only one overriding need -- attention --let's take this up & debate. I’ll bring my hair gel. You bring your hairspray. Name the time before Election Day.
@CNN
🚨And now Ventura County updates in
#CA25
, adding 241 votes that break 60.6%/39.4% for incumbent Republican
@MikeGarcia2020
, further extending his lead over Democrat
@ChristyForCA25
by 51 votes to 422 votes.
Thanks to the incredible energy brought by our thousands of grassroots volunteers, I was proud to be the first Democrat ever to represent
#CA48
.
Serving the people here has been the honor of my life.
Just noticed that Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta is pulling double duty and getting paid by both the Trump 2024 campaign committee and the Save America leadership PAC.
🚨🚨As Orange County gets into the vote center ballots, tonight's
#CA47
update breaks 57.7% 42.3% for Republican Scott Baugh, who slashes Katie Porter's lead by 2,446 votes down to 2,891 and 1.28%
Although the former GOP consultants' ads might not have proven to be in any way persuasive, Democratic donors should take some solace that they bankrolled a six-figure months-long getaway to a luxury ski resort for them to
#Resist
in style.
Somehow still a thing, The Lincoln Project raised $3.6M in the first half of the year.
It reported $34,717 in political expenditures, incinerated $3.5 million on operating expenditures, and ended w/$906.9K that had not yet been seized for the advancement of generational wealth.
Another strong update out of Tulare County for
#CA22
Republican David Valadao. Today's batch of 2,332 votes break 60.3%/39.7% in his favor to net him 480 votes to widen his lead over Democrat Rudy Salas to 4,445 votes.
🚨This morning, I officially filed for the U.S. Senate.
We’ve made great accomplishments in the House, only to see them die at the hands of Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer in the Senate.
Montanans want a Senator that fights for WE,THE PEOPLE, not the D.C. Cartel!
Another 1,823 votes in
#CA48
go 60.82%/39.2% for Republican
@MichelleSteelCA
, extending her lead over incumbent Democrat
@HarleyRouda
by 373 votes to 7,346 votes.
Interesting. In every district-wide partisan Republican vs Democrat race in Katie Porter's
#CA47
(candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction have no party labels on the ballot), Republicans are over 50% in all but the congressional race.
#CA25
update from Ventura County adds 454 votes that break 56.6%/43.4% for incumbent Republican
@MikeGarcia2020
, extending his lead over Democrat Christy Smith by 60 votes from 159 to a new lead of 219.
NEW: Save America, the Trump leadership PAC paying his legal bills, brought in $10,713 in March plus $5M refunded from the MAGA, Inc SuperPAC.
It spent $5M ($3.2M on legal fees, $780K sent to MAGA PAC for its legal fees), ending w/$4.09M on hand and $887K in unpaid legal fees.
🚨JUST IN: California reports it has at least 4.8 million more votes to count in its first post-election estimate.
VBM: 4,656,303
Proviaional: 40,127
Conditional reg: 64,752
Other: 68,697
TOTAL: 4,829,879
In addition to the federal spending, Cori Bush's congressional campaign committee has also spent over three quarters of a million dollars on security since 2020, far and away the campaign's biggest expense category.
🚨BREAKING NEWS -- THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is conducting a criminal probe into
@CoriBush
, according to six sources familiar with the investigation.
The Justice Department subpoenaed the House Sergeant at Arms for records relating to the misspending of federal security money.…
The RNC's November haul was boosted by $850,000 from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which itself isn't looking at all well lately.
November ending cash:
2018 $13,720,520
2019 $18,010,729
2020 $36,831,080
2021 $30,087,674
2022 $10,589,719
2023 $7,722,053
A reader flags this link signed by Trump for a split donation to his own group and Blake Masters. Unless donors click through the fine print, they won't realize the donations are automatically divided to be almost entirely to Trump's group
Orange County updates, with 17,729 more votes in
#CA48
that split 54%/46% for Republican
@MichelleSteelCA
, widening her lead over incumbent Democrat
@RepHarleyRouda
by 1,417 votes to 6,191 votes.
The first bit of good news for Democrats tonight--Democrat Adam Gray pulls into a 761-vote lead in
#CA13
, after 22,335 votes were added from his home turf in Merced County and broke 51.9%/48.1% in his favor, netting him 845 votes and putting him ahead 761 votes.
Today's first Trump PAC filing is in...the dormant Trump MAGA Cmte, which served as the small-dollar joint fundraising committee in 2016 and 2020, spent $202.8K on operating expenditures, sent $1.02M to the Save America leadership PAC paying his legal bills, and has $3.29M left.
Another
#AZ06
update just posted, with 604 votes splitting 52%/48% for Republican Juan Ciscomani to net him an additional 24 votes, bringing his lead to 2,098 votes.
Eric Swalwell's campaign donors shelled out over $100,000 in the first six weeks of 2024 so the Congressman could take in a few football games and tell the FEC it was for a fundraising event.
Serious question: Who on earth paid for
@ericswalwell
's Super Bowl ticket?
That ticket cost well over $10k...I've written about how he's basically broke
Orange County updates in
#CA39
, adding 731 votes that break 55.7%/44.3% for Republican
@YoungKimCA
, adding 83 votes to her margin over incumbent Democrat
@RepGilCisneros
to a lead of 3,550 votes.
Can we get a round of applause for the consultants running against Marjorie Taylor Greene in the Trump +37%
#GA14
for surpassing $15.6 million in contributions for the 2022 cycle?
Just an amazing achievement in the wide-scale destruction of Democratic donor money.
Money raised for the 'GOP ballot harvesting operation' goes to Trump's Save America JFC, which splits the funds between the Trump 2024 cmte and the Save America leadership PAC, whose largest outlay has been the $60M to the MAGA, Inc. SuperPAC running ~$10M in ads vs Ron DeSantis.
Trump's MAGA, Inc. unloads another $2.8 million in four US senate races:
#AZSen
$932,498
#GASen
$926,425
#PASen
$860,714
#NVSen
$102,500
The group has now spent $14.8 million in general election IEs.
During his campaign, Santos spent $30,000 on hotels, $40,000 on airfare and $14,000 on car services. For comparison, Nick LaLota, another representative-elect from NY, spent roughly $900 on hotel stays, $3,000 on airfare and $900 on taxi services.
Eleven thousand retweets, demonstrating once again that the most surefire way to boost your social media engagement metrics is to spout complete nonsense.
You can, it seems, 'make this shit up'.
Thousands of retweets, tens of thousands of likes for fact-free nonsense.
CA extended its all-mail election provisions in February pre-'Delta variant' and when the recall was still hundreds of thousands of signatures away from qualifying.
Due to new “delta variant” California will be mailing in ballots for recall election.
You can’t make this shit up. Setting it up for
@GavinNewsom
to stay in power.
If you can’t see how obvious the corruption & lies are then you’re truly lost.